Per Capita Road Coverage in US States

May 16, 2018

The chart above shows road lengths per thousand people in US states. The Dakotas are the only two states that have over 100 miles for every thousand inhabitants in their states. Additionally, the top 12 states all are from west of the Mississippi.

Findings

The difference between the state with the most roads per capita, North Dakota, and the state with the least, Hawaii, is 126.27 miles.

North Dakota has 39.55 times the roads per capita that Hawaii does.

Five states have more than 50 miles of road for every thousand inhabitants.

Twelve states have less than 10 miles of road for every thousand inhabitants.

The mean miles of road for every thousand inhabitants for the US is 23.09 and the median 16.37.

Caveats

Population data is from 2010.

Road length data is from 2015.

Road and population data come from different sources.

The road network is very limited in Alaska, so much so that the state capital is not connected by road, and one in 78 people are pilots.